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22 Cards in this Set
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What is secession |
the action of withdrawing formally from membership of a federation or body |
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Compromise of 1850 |
Laws passed by Congress that made California a popularsovereignty state and put the fugitive slave act into law |
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Who ran the Underground Railroad? |
Hariet Tubman |
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Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin? |
Harriet Beecher Stowe |
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Who formed the Republican Party? |
Opponents of slavery in the territories |
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Topic of Lincoln Douglass Debate |
Slavery |
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All parts of Fred Scott Decision |
Supreme Court ruled that blacks could not be American citizens and bringING them in a free teritory does not make them free, |
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All confederate States |
Mississippi, Florida Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana,Texas Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee |
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Ulysses S Grant |
Commander of Union army |
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Liam Sherman |
General in Union Army |
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Abraham Lincoln |
16th president who also helped abolish slavery and was the first who got assassinated |
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Robert E Lee |
Commander of Confederate Army |
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Stone Wall Johnson |
General of Confederate army, known for standing still and not moving |
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McClellan |
General in Union Army |
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Jefferson Davis |
President of the Confederate States of America |
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Clara Burton |
Nurse in Civil war, founded the Red Cross |
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Lincoln's main goal at the start of the war |
Preserving the Union |
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North Vs South advantages |
North: wealth, industrial base, naval power,railroads South: vast size, better military leaders, fought on own soil, fighting for a cause, European sympathy |
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What officially abolished slavery in America? |
13th ammendment |
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Why was the Battle of Gettysburg important? |
Showed that Lee couldn't invade the North |
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Why was ironclad ships important? |
Because they could splinter wooden ships with a single hit and could be used as a military weapon |
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Good of Ammancipation Proclamation |
That all slaves of confederate states were "free" |
